RP24/7 loading issues

[Ayem]

So. I download the new update and wait for the server to come online. Server comes online. I join RP 24/7 and wait two minutes to get the character select screen. Unusual, but I figured it might just be the server recovering after its update.

Framerate at this menu ~0.1fps.
After much trial and error I manage to get the cursor over a character.
I double click.
Loading takes four minutes for me to see the inside of the station. Two minutes after that the change from dark wash to normal brightness seems about right. Fps is the same as it was at the menu, if not worse.

I undock. It takes a long time.

My ship rolls out, or I think it rolls out, I get the action shots in widely spaced stills.

Freelancer crashes.

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Hokai. So I try RP USA and SinglePlayer and both are fine, it's just RP 24/7 that's giving me trouble. Any ideas what it might be that is causing this?

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Edit:

So I reinstalled and tried it again, without my software renderer, just my onboard graphics card-thing. Usual problem of shearing and crash, but high framerate.

Then I tried it with SwiftShader, my software renderer and the original problem occured again. Note that Discovery of Discovery and SP work fine, it's just 24/7 that gives me any trouble.

I'll try a different software renderer.

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Edit 2:

Couldn't find a software renderer to match Swiftshader, but I did find a "GMA booster", which allowed me to increase the output of my onboard graphics card. There's still shearing but it's no longer getting overwhelmed and closing freelancer on me. If I abruptly go quiet and appear to F1 though, I apologise.

Now I've just got to get used to all this shearing across my screen again. Buh.

And my report/bounty screenshots will be all kinds of ugly.

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Edit 3:

Okay, because the shearing is burning my eyes out I'll be taking a break until either there's some sort of solution with Swiftshader or.. well.. nope, that's about it.

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[Cannon]

Can you post a screen shot showing this "shearing" problem and some details about your system.

What's SwiftShader?

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[Ayem]

Here's a link to the first thread on this subject: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22481

SwiftShader: A software replacement for hardware graphics cards. http://www.transgaming.com/business/swiftshader/

Shearing:
http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv75/lo...i/screen802.jpg
http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv75/lo...i/screen803.jpg
http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv75/lo...i/screen804.jpg
http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv75/lo...i/screen805.jpg
Shearing is ongoing while in menus (Main menu, equipment menu etc.), when there are players nearby and a target is not selected, when there is a waypoint set but not selected. Depending on the severity of the shearing it can cause a crash to desktop. Sometimes it just crashes for the fun of it. If the X at the corner of a menu is hovered over it causes the shearing to stop, presumably due to the tooltip. Not sure why.
Description of shearing; fast strobing effect of distorted triangles and letters.

Laptop information:
Vista Home Basic
Dell Inspiron 6400
Genuine Intel CPU, T2080 @ 1.73GHz (2 CPUs)
1014MB RAM
DirectX 10
Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family
Intel GMA950
driver: igdumd32.dll, version 7.14.0010.1364

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[Durandal]

Actually, I've been getting this too, never happened back in .84, only since the .85 betas. It doesn't happen often enough with me for it to become a problem, but when it does happen I always need to reboot to fix it.

[Horon]

Reminds me of running Freelancer on Vista on an Intel card.

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[Enko]

It's hard to tell, but really I know this isnt that helpful to your current situation, but I dont think that the card is up for the job, however;

You can try searching for d3d8.dll in your Freelancer\EXE folder if you accidentally activated bloom mod one time or another. Delete this dll if you see it.

I dont know what else to suggest at this point if that isn't your problem, as bloom mod is the only major thing I can think of offhand that increases the graphical requirements of the game, which is a problem for your integrated graphics.

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[Ayem]

Bloom and ENBSeries have already been deleted. The only d3d8.dll in the EXE folder is from SwiftShader, which I remove when using my intel graphics.
I've already done a full uninstall/reinstall of Freelancer, so Bloom was not activated.

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[Ayem]

Not sure if anything was changed since I started posting this thread, but it now works perfect with SwiftShader 2.0

Much thanks whether stuff was done or not.

*glee*

Edit: Or... not. Seems like it was a fluke. Argh.

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